Copts:—
1 Hospice.
Houses for members of their community.
The other communities have only their convents.
In a population of only 20,453 inhabitants, where there are so many schools and so many establishments, it is a great misfortune that no progress is seen, and that there does not appear to be even the hope of obtaining it for a long time to come.
FOOTNOTES:
[898] To show the sums received by the reverend Franciscan Fathers of the Holy Land, I think it will prove interesting if I give the following account published in a pamphlet, L'Eco Francescano, printed at Madrid in the year 1854. It is an authentic statement of the sums sent by the Catholic states to the Holy Land between the years 1650 and 1850. I do not add the details of the manner in which the amount was expended, because I have not the necessary papers; but I do not exaggerate when I say that those who have derived the greatest advantage from it have been the ministers of the Ottoman Porte and their dependents.
| Spanish Reals. | |
| Spain sent | 146,362,280 |
| The Austrian States (Lombardy and | |
| Venice are not distinct) | 18,361,680 |
| France | 2,499,420 |
| Naples | 14,091,560 |
| Portugal | 39,685,480 |
| Sicily | 5,275,000 |
| Rome | 2,205,660 |
| Tuscany | 3,290,800 |
| Island of Sardinia | 1,137,700 |
| Island of Malta | 1,439,360 |
| Piedmont | 5,578,120 |
| Total | 239,737,060 |
[899] Palestine, p. 653.